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Player - Baby Come Back
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmEyGiaqm7k
Location: Barcelona Zoo
Nikon ED 300mm f/4 AF
Technically, not the FIRST ...
3/4 of a mile away. Captured with Pentax K500 using Spiratone Minitel 500/8 mirror lens
(Significant processing using Topaz Labs)
Photo taken at Southport Gold Coast Australia.
A Yashica 500mm Mirror Lens adapted to a Nikon D700 full frame DSLR. Hand held camera with my elbows resting on a park table for stability.
Six Feet Under Theme
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4COQJuo7XU
Location: Barcelona
Note: Donut bokeh unique of this lens.
Nikon Reflex-NIKKOR 500mm f/8 N Version (Macro)
because, she said, "I am a little bird in flight~you are my little bird in flight friend - we don't know where we will be".
breathe.
Quoted by Littlem
Squirrel hanging out in the shade. Example of the donut bokeh that the Canon FD Reflex 500mm f/8 lens is known for.
Cockatoo in my garden Brisbane Australia.
"Quirky" 1974 Yashica 500mm Catadioptric Lens
on a Nikon D700.
This is the first action my mirror lens has seen in about three years. Back when I bought it (for some ridiculous cheap sum, partly due to being second-hand and partly because of how the name "Rokinon" just screams quality), I mostly used it to shoot distant objects at infinity. Then I'd pixel-peep the digital shots, get very discouraged by how soft the lens was, and put it away for months, eventually years.
These days I've grown out of the sharpness obsession that seems to afflict every newbie photographer, and can appreciate how to use a soft long tele lens for the creative opportunities it provides. In this case, there's the thin depth of field from the 500mm focal length, being able to use the lens's low contrast to counteract a glarey scene, and that wacky donut bokker which looks great as long as you don't have a busy background. Plus that glare on the armrest would bring out the worst in chromatic aberrations on a refractive lens, whereas here we have no problem at all.
So yeah, at last I have some love for the mirror lens. But if you're still at the stage of debating over which "glass" to buy next for maximum sharpness, you should probably steer clear of them for now.
For David Foster Wallace (Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace), his debut taught him that writing fiction "took him out of time and released him from some of the pain of being himself."
I feel that way about my photography ~
Opteka Mirror Lens, 500mm, f8.0, ISO 800, 1/800
OPTEKA Mirror Lens, 500mm, f8.0
I like it because of the color shift, soft focus, romance, intended softness, flare, and donut bokeh effect~
Its cold and been raining all day so rather than go out and take a picture I put my old 500mm mirror lens on my Canon 650D and took a picture from the back door of a lonesome leaf on our neighbors Acer tree at the end of the garden.